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| https://maxrose.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2435 | Rose Announces Tottenville HS Students as Winners of Congressional App Challenge | 2019-12-20 | 2019 | 2019-12 | Democrat | House | NY | Max Rose | R000613 | maxrose.house.gov | legacy | Congressman Max Rose announced today that Kartik Kumar and Anthony Squillacioti of Tottenville High School are this year's winners of the Congressional App Challenge for New York's 11th Congressional District. Their winning submission, entitled Schoolabs, is designed to help connect students and teachers over the internet. Kartik and Anthony looked at an issue in their lives and used their computer skills to fix it, Rose said. Their ingenuity and desire put their talents to work improving the world around them is exactly what this challenge is all about. As Tottenville High School students, Kumar and Squillacioti noticed that many New York City schools opted to use generic templates for their websites, rather than paying considerable sums of money for professionally designed website. Schoolabs bridges that gap by streamlining the process of designing a school's online presence with tools that can implemented into existing websites. For example, the app offers an Extracurricular Manager, which allows students to communicate directly with other students, as well as with school faculty, clubs, and organizations in regard to upcoming events, fundraisers, and extracurricular activities. We are elated that the Congressional App challenge encouraged us to find real applications of programming as a medium, one that allows us to express ideas and create something that others can find useful, Kumar and Squillacioti said. Our ultimate goal was to create a project that directly addressed an issue we personally encountered in our lives. We decided to create Schoolabs in order to allow schools to expand their online presence through an efficient, approachable, and accessible process. The Congressional App Challenge invites middle and high school students to put their coding skills to use and create an app that helps their local community. Over the first 4 years of the Challenge, over 14,000 students from 48 states have created submissions. Learn more about the Schoolabs app HERE. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |